Simona Chazen didn’t start at the top of the collecting world.
“Our first love was Cubist art,” she says of her and her husband, Jerome, whom she met at the UW-Madison where she was studying journalism, philosophy and art history before she became a practicing psychotherapist in clinical social work.
Now, they’re multi-millionaires who can collect just about anything they want. But it was different during their UW days.
“Back then we couldn’t afford real art,” she quickly adds.